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    Abnormally small duckling

    How soon did Sailor get feathers? It's been a month and this little one really doesn't have a single one. Transitioning her outside with the flock is a very bad idea until she is larger and has some actual feathers.
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    Abnormally small duckling

    We picked up 4 ducklings April 21st. This is what they look like today a little over a month later The tiny one is Delta. She really doesn't have feathers to speak of, just baby fluff. She is most definitely growing, but extremely slowly. Has anyone encountered this?
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    Processing a duck

    We skinned ours.
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    Goose sitting duck egg

    I hadn’t planned on letting her successfully going broody, but she’s so pitiful I figured I’d let her give it a go.
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    Goose sitting duck egg

    I have a broody goose (our Buff). One of our ducks laid an egg in her nest. Right now she is sitting on 3 goose eggs, and 1 duck egg. She almost never leaves that nest, so whoever laid that egg had a limited amount of time to do it. Will there be problems with our goose hatching a duck egg...
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    Duckling Thread!

    I’ve had Pekin and Buff before, and I’m 99% sure they aren’t either of those breeds. I’ve only raised 1 fawn and white runner from duckling stage, and 2 of them look kind of like that to me (Delta and Echo). Charlie and Blue are complete mysteries to me. I only wanted 3 ducklings. There were 4...
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    Duckling Thread!

    A local farm supply store chain called Coastal Farm and Ranch; they’re from a tub of “mixed ducklings.” They’re all of 1 specific breed, but they don’t tell you which is which. It lists a few breeds “and many more.”
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    Trying to anticipate issues before they occur

    Funny/amusing update. We have 2 ganders and 5 goose. My sexed Buff gander is actually a goose! I bought her as a sexed gander from Metzer, but she’s clearly a goose. She’s all broody right now. I thought she was just an excellent dad until we witnessed an egg laying. She has a communal nest...
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    Duckling Thread!

    We have 4 mystery ducklings. They’re named after the velociraptors in Jurrassic Park. Delta is significantly smaller than everyone else. Blue definitely has stripes around the eye. If anyone can hazard a guess what they are, I’d love to hear it. My poor bathtub; the high iron Well water is...
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    Indian Runner Duck Association

    This isn’t a theological discussion. But I will point something out. The canon of scriptures that any Protestant Church reads is from the church councils that were done by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church pre-schism; Catholic merely means universal and at that time it was just called the...
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    Indian Runner Duck Association

    I never said the Runner book had anything to do with religion or Christianity. I was making a comparison between historical developments. The Runner Duck Association is the first historically to develop the breed to certain standards. If they hadn’t had some sort of standard the other...
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    Indian Runner Duck Association

    Your post to me was about 4H standards for Runner colors. The post you decided to respond to was about the historically recognized Runner colors over the last century outlined in the book.
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    Indian Runner Duck Association

    Kids in 4H basically do a public presentation on a subject. Think of it as a lecture on the subject. My celiac son did one on celiac disease. My eldest daughter did one one the importance of animals in WWI (slugs were actually very important in WWI).
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    Indian Runner Duck Association

    4H didn’t do Runner ducks in 1910, so obviously they didn’t have color standards for them in 1910. Especially since it was mostly agricultural in that time period.
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    Indian Runner Duck Association

    Of course Australia never-ever had any connection whatsoever to Britain. It totally developed spontaneously of its own accord. British standards and breeding have absolutely no historical basis in the historical development of Australian standards. Just like the development of potatoes in...
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